Using Curves and Color Balance together

- [Voiceover] With this image, let's take a look…at how we can use adjustment layers,…in particular, curves and color balance,…in order to improve the color.…This is a photograph of my buddy, Steven.…It was captured at sunrise,…and the overall color temperature's a little bit cool…and the image feels a touch soft,…so I want to fix that.…In order to do that, we'll start off by reaching for Curves.…Click on that, adjustment layer icon.…Let's apply the S-Curve like we've done before.…I want to brighten things up a little bit,…but still have a touch of contrast.…And with this image, it does add a bit more definition,…but I still am feeling like the loss here…is just not warm enough.…

It should have this rich, warm sunrise-type color palette,…so I'm going to go to my Blue channel.…If you drag up, it becomes more blue.…Drag down, it becomes more golden, or yellow.…That's what I want, so I'm going to drag this down.…I want to bring in more of that yellow into this image.…Now those two together, I think,…are a little bit of a secret combo,…

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7/22/2016

Working with color can be an amazing journey, and Photoshop is a great vehicle for taking the trip. In this course, photographer and educator Chris Orwig teaches a variety of ways to create captivating color in photographs. Chris goes beyond the basics by showing how color can profoundly affect a photograph's impact. He demonstrates adjusting color and tone to make images more vivid, changing clothing and background colors with Photoshop and Camera Raw, working with color saturation, cross-processing, removing color, and more. The course includes real-world challenges that showcase the techniques Chris has shown for creating intriguing and beautiful color photographs.